“Unraveling the Secrets: How TV’s Most Shocking True Crime Tale Redefines Storytelling”
‘The Sticky’ (2024)
Don’t Try to Make Something Funny
In all his discussions here about tone and balancing the drama of a story with humor, we wondered what advice he would give a writer trying their hand at similar dramedy in their own work.
He said you should never “try to make something funny.” Instead, fall back on your characters.
If you’re writing a story with conflict (which you probably are), then your characters will be at odds. Natural humor will develop out of that bickering, he said. That was the case in The Sticky, which features characters that all want to achieve their criminal goals in different ways. Let them argue, he advised.
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